Twenty-five young women and men attended the second annual Young Muslim-American Leaders Summit-DC, to speak with national political leaders about they role they can play in shaping future American policies. The event was organized by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who’s executive director Salam Al-Marayati said that we need more Muslims in civil society in…
A family who were wrongly suspected of lying on a school application form have discovered that their local council used anti-terrorism surveillance powers to spy on them. The family, from Poole in Dorset, said they had been tailed for three weeks by council officials trying to establish whether they had given a false address in…
Germany’s top security and law officials have agreed to a plan to enact new computer surveillance regulations. But Muslim leaders fear imams could face more scrutiny than their Christian counterparts. Top security and law officials in Germany this week established new guidelines on surveillance of computers in cases of terrorism or serious crimes. The framework,…
One of the hijackers of the Italian ‘*’ cruise ship is due to be expelled from Italy after serving a 21-year sentence in jail, and three years under police surveillance. Abdellatiif Ibrahim Fatayer was one of four Palestinian militants who hijacked the cruise ship in 1985, taking 450 people hostage in exchange for the release…
French authories held five men suspected of providing logistical support to al-Qaeda to the group Islamic North Africa, were rounded up near the Normandy city of Rouen. Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for twin truck bombings of the U.N offices on December 11t that killed at least 37 people. Police seized computers and searched the…
